• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    What’s your threshold of ‘in mass’? Because it was 1/9 recent college graduates working low wage jobs as of mid-2023.

    In June 2023, about 11.2 percent of recent college graduates were working in low-wage jobs in the United States. This is a slight increase from June 2021, when 10.8 percent of recent college graduates were working low-wage jobs.

    The Federal Reserve Bank of New York classifies low-wage jobs as those that tend to pay around 25,000 U.S. dollars or less. Recent college graduates are defined as those aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree or higher and not enrolled in further study.

    11% of recent graduates with degrees working low wage jobs feels like they’re actually working these roles en masse after all.

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      10 days ago

      11% is certainly not nothing, but the vast majority are not working these jobs.

      I’m not really sure how you can look at 11% and say “yes, they are working these jobs en masse”. A bit disingenuous.

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        9 days ago

        Post OP and others continue to downvote - yet can’t counter.

        Personally, I was turned off by you saying that the other commenter was being “A bit disingenuous.” just because you disagreed with them, despite the fact that I otherwise agree with your point.

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          9 days ago

          I stand by that. It is a bit disingenuous (purposefully or ignorantly) to call 11% “en masse”.

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              8 days ago

              I don’t attribute it to malice. A misleading claim is just that, misleading, whatever their intentions.

              It’s alright if we disagree.